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Our ideals are our better selves. - Amos Bronson Alcott Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will thankfully content ourselves with any not intolerable approximation thereto! Let no man, as Schiller says, too querulously "measure by a scale of perfection the meager product of reality" in this poor world of ours. - Thomas Carlyle The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy ideal; work it out therefrom, and, working, believe, live, be free. Fool! the ideal is in thyself. - Thomas Carlyle Be true to your own highest convictions. - William Ellery Channing Honor to the idealists, whether philosophers or poets. They have improved us by mingling with our daily pursuits great and transcendent conceptions. They have thrown around our sensual life the grandeur of a better, and drawn us up from contacts with the temporal and the selfish to communion with beauty and truth and goodness. - Edwin Hubbell Chapin Most people carry an ideal man and woman in their head, and when the practical relations of the men and women of every day are discussed with reference only to these impossible ideals, we need not marvel at any ridiculous conclusions. - Mary Clemmer (Mary Clemmer Ames) God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing. Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best. - Robert Collyer The ideal itself is but truth clothed in the forms of art. - Octave Feuillet When we idealize the real, we sacrifice to artistic fancy. - Henry Fuseli Without the ideal, the inexhaustible source of all progress, what would man be? - Madame Delphine Gay de Girardin What we need most is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real. - Frederic Henry Hedge Ideals are the world's masters. - Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare and profitless forever. - Julia Ward Howe (Howel) It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough. - James Russell Lowell The true ideal is not opposed to the real, nor is it any artificial heightening thereof, but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it. - James Russell Lowell To have greatly dreamed precludes low ends. - James Russell Lowell The ideal is the only absolute real; and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they may count it who never tried it. - George MacDonald Ideality is the avant-courier of the mind. - Horace Mann Ideality consists of the rainbow rays of intellect. - Alfred Mercier The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended. - Margaret Oliphant All men need something to poetize and idealize their life a little--something which they value for more than its use, and which is a symbol of their emancipation from the mere materialism and drudgery of daily life. - Theodore Parker Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them. - Charles Henry Parkhurst Ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never located. - Marquise de Sevigne, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal A large portion of human beings live not so much in themselves as in what they desire to be. They create what is called an ideal character, in an ideal form, whose perfections compensate in some degree for the imperfections of their own. - Edwin Percy Whipple
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